Life is a Game

New Year's Extra: Scones

In the Jiang family, New Year greetings have always been a very sacred thing.

Ever since Jiang Feng got married and Professor Li gave Jiang Feng a courtyard house as a wedding gift, the Jiang family never went back to the countryside of City Z for a New Year's Eve dinner.

The old man was originally from Peking, and now he has returned to his roots. Today's New Year's Eve dinners are all eaten in Peking with Professor Li's family. If Jiang Yong's family is free, they will also come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year together. It mainly depends on whether Xu Cheng will give him a vacation.

According to a person familiar with the matter (Chen Xiuxiu), Jiang Yong accidentally told Xu Cheng about the Jiang family’s New Year’s Eve dinner during work. added out.

Although the New Year's Eve dinner is eaten in Beiping, they still have to go back to Z City to pay New Year's greetings.

Under normal circumstances, everyone in the Jiang family would grab air tickets for the second or third year of junior high school to go back to City Z, and stay until around the Lantern Festival before returning to Beiping.

Grandma Jiang has already given the key to the house in the country to Li Cui who lives next door, so she asks Zhao's family to take care of the house and clean it up. In return, Jiang's family usually makes two servings of dishes and dumplings during their return home. One is eaten by oneself, and the other is taken to the Zhao family next door.

In the past two years, Li Cuihua's waist is not very good and she can't stand cooking for a long time. She is also very happy to relieve the pressure during the Chinese New Year.

According to Comrade Cuihua, who did not want to be named, her unlucky grandson, Zhao Liang, suddenly loved labor, especially cleaning, as soon as the Chinese New Year arrived. Seeing this unlucky grandson beat the whole village.

According to common sense, the Jiang family would send out their little ticket grabbing expert Jiang Zaide a few years ago to snatch back the air tickets to City Z for the whole family.

But this year is different, this year the situation has changed.

Zheng Siyuan was getting married on the fourth day of the new year, Jiang Feng, Jiang Jiankang, Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Weiming were in charge of the banquet, and everyone else had received invitations to attend the wedding. The Jiang family would definitely not be able to return to the countryside before the fifth day of the new year.

This makes Grandma Jiang, who has always regarded New Year's greetings as a career, and must complete it every year on a fixed-point, quantitative and regular basis, very anxious. She has been calling her brother to discuss what to do since she was a child.

Jiang Feng's uncle and grandpa had an illness the year before last, and the back of his ears got worse after surviving his life at the gate of hell. If you don’t yell so much that you can hear the whole courtyard when you’re on the phone, it’s impossible for the uncle and grandpa on the opposite side to hear you.

In addition, Grandma Jiang has been a little deaf in recent years, and she has to confirm a sentence several times, so the whole family heard the whole phone call between the siblings.

It doesn't matter if the Jiang family can't return to City Z this year, the Zhao family has come to Beiping.

Zhao Mei's husband worked in Jin Province a few years ago, but in the past few years, his job has been transferred to a city near Beiping.

It's not far away, and it takes about two hours to drive here.

Although Jiang Feng's cousin Zhao Zhuangshi was motion sick, seasick, and airsick, and walking was the safest way to travel, but Zhao Mei's filial piety could not be held back.

Zhao Zhuangshi has been in poor health since he was a child, and at this age he is suffering from geriatric diseases. Zhao Mei asked Jiang Shoucheng to help get the expert account of Renyi. He was originally going to take Zhao Zhuangshi and her grandfather (Jiang Feng's uncle) to the hospital for a check-up in the spring, but it happened that Jiang's family couldn't go back this year for the New Year.

The two sides simply hit it off, and Zhao Mei and his wife brought their parents over to celebrate the New Year. In the third year of junior high school, the two families got together, and they didn't say whether to say New Year's greetings or not, and they went to Jiang's house.

The main reason is that both Zhao Mei and her three-bedroom house can't accommodate so many people.

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jiang Zaide, Jiang Shoucheng, Jiang Junqing, and Jiang Junlian, who had nothing to do after making dumplings, gathered in the courtyard to gossip.

As for why they didn't stay in the heated room and had to go to the yard to blow the air, it might be because Jiang Feng baked scones beside them.

Everyone wants to eat the freshest scones, and there is nothing to be afraid of a little wind.

Surrounded by the fire, eating melon seeds and chatting gossip, the cold wind will not be so cold.

"I heard that Sister Meimei's house is a three-bedroom house. How can I live with both parents taking over this Chinese New Year?" Jiang Ran expressed concern.

"Stay in a hotel." Jiang Junqing knocked on the melon seeds quickly, and couldn't stop looking at the scones that Jiang Feng was about to bake.

"Don't think about it, my sister-in-law hasn't eaten yet. It's not your turn." Jiang Junlian didn't even need to look to know what Jiang Junqing was thinking, "You didn't smell the chili sauce in the kitchen before. These scones are sure to be spicy."

Jiang Junqing sniffed: "I want spicy food too."

Jiang Junqing's words were like waking up someone in a dream, and the few people present immediately realized, yes, why is our pursuit of scones limited to sweet ones with fruit fillings, but never thought that we can also eat spicy ones? .

Jiang Zaide was a little moved.

Jiang Shoucheng stood still.

Jiang Ran didn't know if he should move now.

Jiang Junqing looked at Jiang Junlian.

Jiang Junlian moved.

"Brother, sister-in-law Qiqi is still making supplementary food for Xiaobai in the kitchen, do you want me to help? I can chop vegetables very well now." Jiang Junlian said.

Jiang Feng, who was thinking about Zheng Siyuan's wedding banquet on the fourth day of junior high school, wondering if there were any mistakes or omissions, didn't listen to a word, and didn't know what people were talking about:?

"Ah?" Jiang Feng didn't think there was anything wrong, so he nodded, "Qiqi seems to be in the kitchen, if you go to help, go to the room and see if Xiaobai and Xiaoyun are awake. If they wake up, they should probably start a fight .”

"Yueru is in the room, don't worry." Jiang Zaide said.

Jiang Junlian ran towards the kitchen with cheerful steps.

After Jiang Feng came to his senses, he wanted to hear some gossip, but he didn't know where everyone was talking before, so he could only start a conversation by himself: "I remember when grandma called and said that my aunt was going to bring us some special products. Do you know what it is?"

"It should be the vegetables grown by my aunt." Talking about this, Jiang Shoucheng has something to say, "I chatted with Sister Meimei a few years ago, and she said that my aunt has been obsessed with growing vegetables in recent years, and she sends some cabbage every now and then. Vegetables, radishes, etc., the pension is all given to the courier company."

"Did my aunt not send some meat?" Jiang Zaide questioned, "My mother told me that my aunt raised two pigs in the countryside this year, and they are getting fat."

"Sister Meimei brought them here when she drove them here." Jiang Shoucheng grabbed a handful of melon seeds, knocked them and said without delay, "Do you know how many catties my aunt raised this year?"

"How much?" Everyone said in unison, and Jiang Feng was attracted to them.

Jiang Shoucheng stretched out a hand, compared an astonishing number to everyone, and said solemnly, "More than five hundred catties!"

"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed.

"More than five hundred catties?!" Jiang Feng was shocked.

Some very bad memories flooded my mind in an instant.

He has never been so glad that he doesn't have to go to his uncle's and grandparents' for New Year's greetings this year.

Everyone continued to chat about other gossips, some of their own and others. For example, the second aunt had already started introducing Jiang Shoucheng to a blind date. The two sons of Jiang Feng and Jiang Zaide deeply hurt her, and Jiang Ran also had stability. Jiang Shoucheng's girlfriend, Jiang Shoucheng is the only single dog left among the four Jiang family brothers.

The second aunt is now forcing her son to lose weight and grabbing her son's blind date with both hands, making Jiang Shoucheng shout that he should love freely of.

Jiang Feng:?

Why isn't it useless to force you to go on a blind date?

"But Brother Cheng, you are indeed a bit too fat now. I feel that you have gained a lot of weight after you became a regular." Jiang Feng began to speak for the second aunt.

"Well, it's not that the work pressure is too great and we can only rely on food to relieve pressure." Jiang Shoucheng looked sad, "It's not like you don't know how busy our emergency department is."

"Who told you to choose the emergency department? You don't want to go to an easier department, but you go to a department like the emergency department, which is tiring and has little money." Jiang Zaide complained mercilessly.

"The emergency department is so good. Director Zhong, Dr. Cao, and Dr. Lu are all easy-going people. They know everyone well, and my younger brother also knows them well." Jiang Shoucheng looked like you didn't understand. The demolition money was previously used to renovate Taifeng Building, and now it has been returned in dividends. I don’t want to buy a house like Lao Sun. My God, do you know how expensive the house price is now? If it’s not for selling blood, I can’t buy it From then on, Lao Sun wished he could sell his blood to buy a house."

Jiang Zaide was deeply touched: "The shop is more expensive. Yueru's parents have saved some money over the years, and they want to sell the original shop and buy a slightly larger shop to open a donkey meat roast shop."

"Thanks to the fact that I saved a lot of money to buy a house a few years ago, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford this new shop."

Speaking of this, Jiang Feng remembered that Jiang Zaide was admitted to the hospital a few years ago because he was too serious about his work, and he couldn't help asking: "I've always been weird, Brother De, you didn't talk about a girlfriend before, why are you so anxious to think about it?" Buying a house in BJ?"

Jiang Zaide: ...

Can he say that because he wants to take advantage of the right time, place and people, he lives next to his younger brother so that he can have a meal in the future?

Although this purpose he has achieved.

Just when Jiang Zaide was thinking about what to say to fool him, Jiang Junlian came over with a basin of scones.

"Brother, when I went to the refrigerator to get carrots, I saw the chili sauce you made this morning for scone fillings. Sister-in-law Qiqi said that the freshly made chili sauce is best used up on the same day, and it happens to be in the kitchen There is still unused flour, so I will help to finish the supplementary food, and sister-in-law Qiqi has made some new cakes for you to bake together."

"Not much, that's all."

Everyone looked at it, and there were not many, only about 20 per pot.

Jiang Feng: ...

It's really embarrassing for Jiang Junlian, she can accidentally see the chili sauce he put in the back of the refrigerator covered.

Having been in charge of the Jiang family's New Year's Eve dinner for so many years, why didn't Jiang Feng know what kind of idea Jiang Junlian was playing?

Over the years, Jiang Feng had experienced the happiness of the old man, and finally understood why the old man often said that he wanted to be beautiful, but secretly got up early to make a big bowl of fried spring rolls.

This may be the joy of feeding.

"Leave it alone, I'll bake it later." Jiang Feng nodded.

"Hard work, little brother!"

"Are you thirsty, do you want me to pour you a cup of hot water?"

"Brother, I remembered. I have coffee beans in my room that my colleague gave me some time ago. I'm going to make you a cup of freshly ground coffee with milk and sugar!" Brother De rushed out before Jiang Junlian.

"Little brother, I have honey citron tea made by Yueru herself, I'll make you a cup." Brother Cheng followed closely behind.

"Brother, at my place... Da Hua's pig food hasn't been made yet, I'm going to make pig food for Da Hua!"

In the blink of an eye, the four of them dispersed.

Sitting in the room watching Grandma Jiang play mahjong, the old man who has a panoramic view of everything: ...

"Everyone is bluffing, and none of them are in shape." The old man, who lost the fun of feeding, whispered unhappily.

"What are you talking about? Hongzhong." Chen Suhua asked curiously.

"Juniors are energetic." Jiang Weiming broke out a cake with a smile.

The neighbor who came over to join the game played a two-of-a-kind: "I like to come to your house to play cards during the Chinese New Year. The children are so lively."

"It's quite lively, what a fool." Professor Li smiled slightly, hiding his achievements and fame, and got up to do some activities.

Jiang Weiming estimated the time: "Is Xiaofeng's cake ready soon?"

"It's coming soon." The old man nodded, "I don't know who I learned from because I like to bake cakes in the yard during the Chinese New Year."

How could Jiang Weiming not know what the old man was thinking, so he got up and moved like Professor Li, and said, "When playing mahjong, my body is always stiff while sitting, little brother, why don't we go to the kitchen for some exercise and fry some spring rolls? "

The old man's eyes lit up: "Let's go, I made the spring roll wrappers this morning, and fried some pancakes. How can I not eat spring rolls and pancakes this Chinese New Year!"

After finishing speaking, he dragged Jiang Weiming to the kitchen excitedly, leaving the neighbor with a blank expression.

"Hey, can you still play mahjong?"

"Hit." Grandma Jiang said categorically, "Wait for me and call my third daughter-in-law over."

"There is a chef in their store who is very good at playing mahjong. My third daughter-in-law always plays mahjong with him during lunch break, and his card skills are not bad!"